Last week crews installed the exhaust hood, walk-in freezer and cooler in the new kitchen. The mechanical contractors set a new AHU (air handling unit) on the roof. Demo continues on the old 300 Care Center wing and they just set the wooden trusses on the new 200 Care Center wing. Inside the hospital patient wing addition, work continues on the plumbing, HVAC and electrical.

Crews have finished the slabs on the New 200 Care Center Wing (old 100 wing area). The new kitchen area is progressing and the crews have installed plumbing, HVAC, electrical and started to drywall. The demo crews are working through the old 300 wing. A lot of action is happening up on the roof, out of site from the public. Roof joists are being installed and you can see then new roof tie-ins.

New 200 Care Center Wing slabs poured out

Kitchen progress

Ductwork – Sometimes its hard to comprehend how much is above the ceiling in a hospital…..

This week was another heavy week of demolition on parts of the old Care Center and future remodeling areas for the existing hospital. Crews are selectively placing new steel columns in the existing hospital where they will be remodeling in the future. Rough in continues in the hospital patient wing addition and new kitchen.

We hit another major milestone of sort this past week as the team created a patient room head wall mock-up. This allows nursing to have input on preferred locations for oxygen, outlets, light switches, vacuum suction, nurse calls, etc. Other progress includes putting in plumbing in the new kitchen, in areas to be remodeled, the crews continue to partition off work areas where they remove a small portion of the existing floor, box out a new footing and install a new steel beam column for a new roof. The Old 100 Wing is now officially tore down and crews are jack hammering out the old concrete slab. The siding crews have been removing and re-installing the new siding to make some adjustments to the insulation behind the siding.

Patient room head wall mock-up

Hospital addition – patient wing hallway

New kitchen getting plumbing

Remodel area getting some new steel column foundations

Box form for future steel column footing

Roof progress – moved the rocks (roof ballast) over to make modifications like new steel supports.

Last week the construction crews began demolition of the Old 100 Wing of the Care Center. The staff reminisced about all the wonderful years of working in the Old 100 Wing; many recounting having worked most of their career there. Meanwhile, progress continues on the new hospital addition as crews continue to frame up and rough in for the future patient rooms, the “blue” exterior showed up again as crews applied to the walls of the new addition.

Care Center 100 wing demo

Care Center 100 wing demo

Care Center “Old” 100 Wing

“Blue” finish applied to new entry way – don’t worry the crews will soon be putting up the real siding

Inside the new hospital addition, crews are framing the interior walls, electrical and mechanical crews are roughing in the electrical and plumbing; also they will be creating a mock-up/example of the new patient headwall panels prior to sheet rocking the rooms. In the kitchen area they have installed the new aluminum frame windows.

Residents moved into the new north and south Care Center additions last week. Staff worked to move the residents from their old rooms in the new rooms. Demo activities are now beginning on the old Care Center wings.

Vera Schumann (Director of Finance) and Bob Willis (Director of Human Resources) bringing a bed the new room

A lot of activity in the heart of the campus; entryway, kitchen and hospital addition. In the entryway and kitchen area, crews are putting up the roof decking with roofers to follow this week. Plumbing is now going into the kitchen. In the hospital wing addition they are putting up the metal stud walls and roughing in the plumbing fro the patient rooms.

The Care Center staff was doing their final housekeeping clean-up on the two new Care Center additions in preparations for the residents to move in. On the front entry and new kitchen area, crews are setting roofing and installing metal studs to partition off the future areas. Out back on the hospital addition, the structural steel has been set, roof decking is going up and the concrete slabs have been poured.

Crews continue to finish the Care Center spaces as they are putting in the tile in the new spa area. Furniture for the resident rooms has arrived and is being placed in the rooms. The crews are finishing the resident’s dining and living room areas. Demo crews are starting to take out walls in the admin area. The construction crews have taken out the cornerstone of the existing building during demo to save in a time capsule. New sidewalks were poured for the Care Center additions. Boldt laborer, Jason was putting on some finishing touches by cleaning the resident rooms, and yes even cleaning we make it safe by wearing hard hats!

Care Center hallway

Resident room bed

Resident room with furniture

Boldt Laborer Jason cleaning

New Care Center Living Room

The new brains of the operations; IT panel, nurses call stations, etc.